Pink lining

Knitting has been going horribly, horribly wrong lately. I finished my green tshirt – the one where I knit the sleeves separately and sewed in the sleeve cap. Disastrous. Unpicked all the sewing and reknit the sleeves. Sewed them back in. Still disastrous. I’m not sure if I should knit the sleeves from the armhole…

Fie, fye, foe, fum!

Last weekend, because the weather was set to be fine for a few days, we headed up north to visit Newry, Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway. Legend has it that Fionn MacCumhaill built the causeway as a bridge to Scotland to battle his foe, Benandonner. He fell asleep before he got to Scotland and when…

Not much to show…

…but something to tell. I’ve been pretty busy this week getting ready for my audition and putting off getting ready for my audition. This is what I was doing whilst putting things off. Yup, another hand towel. I told you I had a lot of that cotton! It is so nice to work with and…

FO – Handtowel #1

I knit a green sleeve up to the armhole and 45cm of blue sleeve and then I gave up. I couldn’t take it any more. But of course you can’t just do nothing, so I made one of these instead. Pattern: Cotton Dishcloths from the LionBrand website. I think you might have to join up…

Sleeve Island

You think one sleeve is bad? Try these on for size. Horrendous. The green is for a very simple henley top that I finished the body for about four months ago. Something got into my head that it would not only be a good idea, but a GREAT idea, to knit bottom up sleeves and…